Snare



Sept. 21 ,f1-926.!

- V 1,600,756 N. D. FAIRBAN KS y SNARE Filed-Oct. 1'7l 1925 Patented Sept. 21, 1926.

UNITED s'iaTEs1 NORMAN D. FAIRBANKS, OF HI'BBING, MINNESOTA.

SNARE.

Application led October 1'?,` V1925. Serial No. 63,039.

This invention relates toanimal traps and 4has special reference to a novel form of snare; the principal object being to provide simple, positive and effective means for strangling an animal caught in the snare quickly thereafter.

Other objects and advantages of the novel structure will appear in the further description of the invention.

4 In the accompanying drawing forming part of this application in which like reference characters designate like parts:

Figure l is a side elevation of one of the improved snares made of twisted flexible wire; n

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the extreme noose end of the wire; and A Figure 3 is an enlarged verticalsectional view on the line 3-3, Figure 2.

For animals such as wolves, foxes, lor the like, I prefer to use a exible, twisted wire of sucient strength, the samebeing illustrated at l in the accompanying drawings. 'Ihe extreme noose end of the wire is provided with an elongated metal socket member 2, which member isA provided with a tapered shank 3 made suficiently large to provide for varying sized wires sothat a hole may be drilled therethrough to accommodate the wire, whether it be of the size illustrated or slightly larger or smaller'. l'Ihe opening 4t in the socket is elongated horizontally thereof and provided in its outer extremity with an inwardly Vprojecting sharpened lip 5, the biting edge of which occurs upon one side thereof and is designed to catch behind any one of the shoulders formed by the ferrules indicated at 6; These ferriiles 6 are threaded upon the wire 40 l somewhat remote from the loop and the 'terminal ferrules are soldered or brazed to,

the wire, while the intermediate ones are loosely mounted thereupon, thus permitting of free flexibility of theWire therein, so that as the bight or noose of the snare is pulled taut, as for example `about the neck of the animal, the loop 2 will readily slip'down f onto the ferrules readily catching behind the shoulder of the closest one to the animal and retaining its hold, as is obvious.'

The ferrules 6 are of metal and substantially the size assliown in the drawing vfor the ordinary snare, and while their 'construction as well as that of the loop may be considerably varied without departing from the spirit of the invention, it is obvious that the illustration is sufficient forone practical embodiment thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim aiiddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is: Y

' l. -A snare of the character described made of flexible wire including a noose having a socket in the terminal end thereof, a plurality of tapered ferrules loosely strung upon the wire adjacent each other except l as to the cxtreme end ones whichare rigidly attached thereto, said series of ferrules cooperatively engageable "through the socket and normally passing therethrough in but one direction.

2. A snare comprising in combination a flexible wire, a noose formed upon one end thereof having a socket surrounding the body portion of the wire, a catch within said,`

socket, and a plurality of catch engaging units upon the wire for payment through the socket normally in but one direction.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

` N ORMAN D. FAIRBANKS. 

